1716 in music

Events

• July 1 – Domenico Zipoli joins the Society of Jesus. Soon afterwards he is sent on a mission to Paraguay.
• Georg Philipp Telemann visits Eisenach, resulting in an appointment as visiting Kapellmeister.
• Antonio Stradivari – completes Le Messie violin
• Jonathan Swift conceives the idea for the Beggar's Opera.
• Giuseppe Tartini hears Francesco Maria Veracini play the violin, and is inspired.

  Classical music

• William Babell – The Fourth Book of the Ladys Entertainment
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• *Wachet, betet, seid bereit allezeit!, BWV 70a
• *Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
• *Mein Gott, wie lang, ach lange, BWV 155
• *Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161
• *Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
• *In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
• Diogenio Bigaglia – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – Cantates françoises, Book 3
• François Couperin
• *Second livre de pièces de clavecin
• *L'art de toucher le clavecin
• Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 4
• Domenico Elmi – Oboe Concerto in A minor
• Francesco Geminiani – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
• Georgio Gentili – 12 Violin Concertos, Op. 6
• Christoph Graupner
• * Verleih dass ich aus Herzensgrund, GWV 1114/16
• * Muss ich denn noch ferner leiden, GWV 1145/16
• * Gott ist für uns gestorben, GWV 1152/16
• George Frideric Handel
• * Concerto Grosso in F major, HWV 315
• * 6 Fugues, HWV 605–610
• Johann Kuhnau – Wenn ihr fröhlich seid an euren Festen
• Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – 12 Recorder Sonatas, Op. 4
• Michel Montéclair – Musette
• Giovanni Mossi – 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Ombre tacite e sole
• Georg Philipp Telemann
• *Concerto for 3 Trumpets, 2 Oboes, Timpani and Strings in D major
• *Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1
• *Germania mit ihrem Chor, TWV 12:1c
• *Kleine Kammermusik
• Francesco Maria Veracini
• *Six Overtures
• *12 Sonate a violino o flauto solo e basso
• Robert di Visée – Pièces de théorbe et de luth
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *La stravaganza, Op. 4
• *6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 5
• *12 Concerti, Op.7
• *Violin Concerto in C major, RV 195
• *Violin Concerto in D major, RV 205
• *Violin Concerto in D minor, RV 245
• *Violin Concerto in F major, RV 292
• *Violin Concerto in A major, RV 340
• *Violin Concerto in A major, RV 343
• *Gloria in D major, RV 589
• *Juditha Triumphans, RV 644
• *Recorder Sonata in G major, RV 806
• Jan Dismas Zelenka
• * Deus dux fortissime, ZWV 60
• * Da pacem Domine, ZWV 167
• Domenico Zipoli – Sonate d'intavolatura per organo e cimbalo, Op. 1

  Opera

• Antonio Maria Bononcini – Sesostri re d'Egitto
• Giuseppe Maria Buini – Armida abbandonata
• Francesco Ciampi – Timocrate
• Francesco Bartolomeo Conti – Il finto Policare
• Johann Christoph Pepusch – Apollo and Daphne
• Carlo Francesco Pollarolo – Ariodante
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Carlo re d'Allemagna
• Antonio Vivaldi
• *Arsilda Regina di Ponto
• *La costanza trionfante degl'amori e degl'odii, RV 706
• *L'incoronazione di Dario, RV 719

  Publications

• Johann Heinrich Buttstett – Ut, mi, sol, re, fa, la, tota musica et harmonia aeterna
• François Campion – Traité d'accompagnement et de composition
• Estienne Roger – Concerti a Cinque con Violini, Oboè, Violetta, Violoncello e Basso Continuo del Signori G. Valentini, A. Vivaldi, T. Albinoni, F. M. Veracini, G. St. Martin, A. Marcello, G. Rampin, A. Predieri

  Births

• February 9 – Johann Trier, composer
• March 21 – Josef Seger, composer
• April 12 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer
• c. 1716/17 – John Beard, tenor and actor-manager

  Deaths

• August 3 – Sebastián Durón, composer
• September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer
• October 1 – Giovanni Battista Bassani, composer, violinist and organist
• November – Johann Aegidus Bach, organist and uncle of Johann Sebastian
• December 1 – Johann Samuel Drese, composer
• December 6 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch religious composer
• date unknown – Carlo Giuseppe Testore, double bass maker